Did Facebook shut down two bots speaking to themselves because the company feared for humanity? (more…)

The AI council published their guidance on what should constitute the UKs AI strategy today. The executive summary can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-roadmap What is the AI council in the UK? There are many government and civ... (more…)

Critics of AI risk suggest diminishing returns to computing (formalized asymptotically) means AI will be weak; this argument relies on a large number of questionable premises and ignoring additional resources, constant factors, and nonlinear returns to sm... (more…)

German tabloid Bild, Europe's top-selling newspaper, has told hundreds of editors they will be replaced by AI. Will chatbots sound the death knell for human-made media content? (more…)

There are two Reddit posts in r/AskAcademia and a more detailed and updated vroniplag page (this specific page contains solely segments from Andreas Theodorou’s thesis) about a case of academic pla… (more…)